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Welcome to the Kansas Flint Hills
Quilt Trail!

Enjoy the bright quilt patterns already displayed
along the scenic countryside of our Kansas Flint Hills region! New
participants to this new art form are invited to join The Kansas Flint Hills Quilt Trail. The Kansas Flint Hills Quilt Trail is formed to celebrate agricultural heritage, preserve agricultural history and culture, as well as promote agritourism and rural pride.

The Kansas Flint Hills Quilt Trail, as part of the Kansas Flint Hills Tourism Coalition, promotes the quilt art through the Kansas Flint Hills 22 counties, as well as promoting the beauty and the agricultural history of the Flint Hills. The Kansas Flint Hills Quilt Trail partners with the American Quilt Trail, joining the art form nationwide, offering the quilt art for public viewing.

Quilt Trail History

Driving through the countryside
anywhere in the world you will likely come across many barns.They drape the country in many designs,
colors and architecture.Some barns are
painted to display advertisements.However, a woman named Donna Sue Groves, from Adams County, Ohio wanted
to honor her mother by hanging a colorful painted quilt block on her barn.Instead of just one quilt block, she began a
community project with twenty quilt blocks being displayed along a driving trail
to encourage visitors to travel through the countryside. This was the start of
the first quilt trail in America.

According to Suzi Parron who authored Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail
Movement, quilt trails are organized all across the
country.Quilt
blocks are displayed on barns around the countryside and then mapped out for
tourists to follow these amazing works of art.The quilt trails draw visitors into our rural communities as well as
promote county-wide pride and showcase agriculture.Traditional stars and various quilt patterns
are now being displayed on barns, homes, sheds and sides of buildings
throughout the Kansas Flint Hills.They are
also put on posts and displayed in yards and parks.

How To Join

Barn quilt enthusiasts may join The Kansas Flint Hills Quilt Trail, by using the application available on the "application" tab.

How Donate To The KSFHQT

The Kansas Rural Communities Foundation is a 501c3 entity and all donations made to the KSFHQT
Fund through KRCF are tax deductible. For more information about KRCF or to make a donation
online go to http://thekrcf.org/.

Map Your Trip Through The Kansas Flint Hills

Barn quilt enthusiasts will find location information for the quilt blocks available for public viewing on the "quilt trail" tab and the "map" tab.